From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-10-26T15:12:36+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:5868] Re: succ but no pred? (& the MURKY award)

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:5862] succ but no pred? (& the MURKY award)"
    on 00/10/26, "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:

|Is there some special reason that Ruby has (here and there)
|a successor function (succ) but never a predecessor function
|(pred)?

Two reasons:

  * Perl does not have magic decrement

  * I was (and still is) too tired to define what should be the exact
    behavior of magic decrement myself.

							matz.